Rui Pedro Silva
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Rui Pedro Silva is a world renowned Portuguese investigator of the Doors band. So far, he wrote two books about the American band, both very successful: “You Make Me Real / Contigo Torno-me Real” and the latest “Caravana Doors- Uma Viagem Luso-Americana”. DeezMag talked to him about his latest work and about Jim Morrison´s mythic band. DM - The Doors’s music can be defined as “music for the different…for the excluded ones”. What´s your opinion on that matter? RPS - The excluded are part of the whole so if the Doors´s music is for the whole its for the excluded as well. I believe music should not be catalogued. I think you like the music or you don’t. And about the music made by the Doors, some people say they don´t like it because they actually don´t understand what the band really means on the lyrics. The Doors are not like The Beatles, which is that kind of love love love thing, I love you, give me your hand and let´s go outside… The Doors are not like that, The Doors are another thing. It´s
Rimbaud, it´s Nietzsche, It´s William Blake, Aldous Huxley, It´s Beat Generation…they are an amalgam of cultural, literary, theatrical references that Jim Morrison used. That´s the reason why the lyrics may not seem very clear.
DM - Your academic thesis is based on the antinomy between Jim Morrison as a poet\man and Jim Morrison the Rock Star\ Lizard King. What major lessons did you get from that investigation? RPS - Jim Morrison was essentially a poet and he used to see himself as a poet. But as a rock star he reached millions and millions of people, as a poet maybe hundreds or even